12-04-2017, 12:05 AM
Le_Regard wrote:
I was wrong before by the way, it wasn't Florentine. They spoke Tuscan in Florence, first of all, but it wasn't even in Tuscan. Dante was a guy with something so important to say he MADE THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE just to say it right.
The Divine Comedy is *properly speaking* of EPIC proportions.
I'll do The Divine Comedy as long as you want, I love The Divine Comedy, but FYI it gets TIBETAN almost immediately.
I love The Divine Comedy
It's a nice foundation for most of what matters in life. Just so you know, Dante apparently chose a more vulgar language to express his masterpiece. He could've taken the high road, but he chose the low road I think the lower class would receive it better from a vulgar perspective, and they're likely the ones who needed to hear the story the most. Also, leave it to Dante to share a serious message in the most unconventional of ways.
From Wiki:
Dante called the poem "Comedy" (the adjective "Divine" was added later in the 16th century) because poems in the ancient world were classified as High ("Tragedy") or Low ("Comedy").[30] Low poems had happy endings and were written in everyday language, whereas High poems treated more serious matters and were written in an elevated style. Dante was one of the first in the Middle Ages to write of a serious subject, the Redemption of humanity, in the low and "vulgar" Italian language and not the Latin one might expect for such a serious topic. Boccaccio's account that an early version of the poem was begun by Dante in Latin is still controversial.[31][32]
I was wrong before by the way, it wasn't Florentine. They spoke Tuscan in Florence, first of all, but it wasn't even in Tuscan. Dante was a guy with something so important to say he MADE THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE just to say it right.
The Divine Comedy is *properly speaking* of EPIC proportions.
I'll do The Divine Comedy as long as you want, I love The Divine Comedy, but FYI it gets TIBETAN almost immediately.
I love The Divine Comedy
It's a nice foundation for most of what matters in life. Just so you know, Dante apparently chose a more vulgar language to express his masterpiece. He could've taken the high road, but he chose the low road I think the lower class would receive it better from a vulgar perspective, and they're likely the ones who needed to hear the story the most. Also, leave it to Dante to share a serious message in the most unconventional of ways. From Wiki:
Dante called the poem "Comedy" (the adjective "Divine" was added later in the 16th century) because poems in the ancient world were classified as High ("Tragedy") or Low ("Comedy").[30] Low poems had happy endings and were written in everyday language, whereas High poems treated more serious matters and were written in an elevated style. Dante was one of the first in the Middle Ages to write of a serious subject, the Redemption of humanity, in the low and "vulgar" Italian language and not the Latin one might expect for such a serious topic. Boccaccio's account that an early version of the poem was begun by Dante in Latin is still controversial.[31][32]